About me
Hello and welcome to my page. I’m so glad you have landed here, and well done for taking the first step towards making meaningful change in your life. It can be really hard to name when things feel difficult, and even harder to reach out to talk to someone about this. Even just clicking on this website and beginning to explore people’s pages shows a recognition of a different way you would like to live, and I would love to support you on that journey.
My name is Dr Katie Overbury. I am a somatically led Clinical Psychologist, EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner and Somatic Facilitator, and I specialise in trauma-focused work, covering both PTSD and complex trauma.
I work with people who are living with the ongoing impact of trauma or overwhelming experiences. This may include single incident trauma, birth trauma, medical trauma, accidents, assault, relational trauma, workplace trauma, or a small cluster of linked experiences that continue to feel active in the body and nervous system.
In your present day, this may present as PTSD symptoms, flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, shame, dissociation, or feeling as though your body is still responding as if the trauma is happening now. I work with PTSD using EMDR therapy, nervous system regulation and trauma-focused psychological therapy, supporting you to process what has happened in a way that feels safe, contained and appropriate for you.
I also work with complex stress and trauma, which may present as relational difficulties, challenges with regulating moods, low self-worth or belief in yourself, chronic pain, tension, emotional overwhelm, protective patterns, or feeling disconnected from your body, yourself and the world around you.
My therapy combines a mixture of talking, EMDR therapy, somatic body-based practices, nervous system regulation, parts work and breathwork. I provide my clients with a safe and restorative space to explore the current challenges they are facing in life, supporting meaningful recognition and change in both body and mind.
Alongside longer term trauma-focused therapy, I also offer Intensive EMDR for clients wanting a more focused way to process specific traumatic experiences. This can be particularly supportive for people who are looking to work on a recent trauma, a single incident, or a small cluster of linked memories in a more contained and targeted way.
I believe it is important that the therapeutic path taken is appropriate for each individual and their current challenges at the point of meeting me in therapy, and remains flexible throughout the time we work together.
As a Clinical Psychologist, I am trained to work with great variation in people’s life challenges and their surrounding contexts, and my work is informed by a variety of evidence-based models to meet these needs.
However, my main modalities are:
EMDR Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy
Somatically Focused Parts Work IFS
Trauma-informed Breathwork
Within all my work as a Psychologist, somatic practices with both breath and body are used to connect the mind and body’s story. An understanding of the nervous system is also threaded throughout to build a foundational understanding of how our lives and the environments we live in are deeply affecting our bodies, functioning, and how we feel able to engage in the world around us in response to this.
I currently work online with clients across the UK, with limited in-person availability in the Liverpool area.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience:
- I have over 10 years experience working with mental health and wellbeing, both in charitable settings and the NHS
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate Psychology
- Postgraduate diploma in Psychological Therapies for Children and Families
- Clinical Psychology Doctorate (DClin)
- EMDR accredited therapist
Training:
- Conscious Connected Breathwork training
- Biodynamic Breathwork Training in process
- IFS somatically focused Parts Work training
- Yoga training RYT 700+ hours including vinyasa, fascial yin, somatics, embodied yin, and somatic ecstatic dance training
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£111.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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